Now Canonical has released a security update to patch the serious OpenSSL vulnerability that has been discovered a while ago.

OpenSSL is an open-source cryptographic library that is the most widely being used by a significant portion of the Internet services; to cryptographically protect their sensitive Web and e-mail traffic using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

The vulnerabilities that were found in OpenSSL, could let a remote attackers to launch a denial of service attacks.

In order to prevent the Ubuntu machines from this critical vulnerability Canonical released a security updates for several of its Ubuntu versions.

Here is the list of Ubuntu flavors that has been affected:

Ubuntu 16.10

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

So if you are using any of the above distributions then it is suggested to upgrade immediately.

The problem can be fixed by updating your system to the following package version:

Please check the CVE’s 3 of them are low priority and one medium, there’s 0 high or critical priority so the “serious” part it’s minimum a mistake.
Also no hack or use of any of this vulnerabilities exist right now on the wild and the article it’s 2 days late.
This kind of articles are no good for the Linux, OpenSSL and Ubuntu environment, please consider the next time to look at the CVE’s and USN’s priority before using words like serious flaw. 😉